appropriately subject to criticism but not impeachment impeachment requires treason or bribery or other crimes a kin to treason bribery which are designated as high crimes and misdemeanors and none of these are high crimes in fact the original the original designate was cry crimes against the united states that was taken out by the committee on style but even hypothetically if a president were to commit war crimes against another country that would raise a very interesting question about whether that would be impeachable had never thought of that before so you deserve kudos for raising that issue but i don't know what the answer is well no doubt you're a big fan of a us mainstream media like m s n b c c.n.n. and right on what do you think of the fact they're playing this clip endlessly of you in 1908 saying that seemingly to contradict what you're saying that they about no crime needing to have been committed only the corruption of office needing to

helmand committed my main objection is that it shows me really with very bad hair. which talking about something else 22 years old i've gotten a lot smarter and i think a lot better looking over the last 22 years obviously back then the issue in the clinton impeachment was not a whether a crime is required because he was charged with a crime it was whether perjury is a high crime and when i made the statement back then i had done the research on whether a crime is required in the trump matter of course that's the central issue so i've gone back and read all the congressional debates all the constitutional debates the record of the trial previously impeached presidents and i've come to the conclusion now today which i think is correct that criminal behavior can do treason bribery is required so i know better today than i. 22 years ago well you've explained

exhaustedly on all these mainstream channels how you're going to defend the president but fundamentally under the constitution what's the actual point of this process given that the senate will acquit donald trump. well i've been doing trials and appeals for 55 years and i never can predict the outcome of a case i mean once things happen if witnesses a call with new evidence comes in you never know what the outcome is going to be for the trial manager johnson nobody knew what the outcome was going to be until the last vote was cast so i'm not going into this with the confidence that an acquittal is assured though it seems likely more difficult this time when electronic devices are not being allowed in the senate and they think to be all these strictures on these old white middle class senate says that are going to have

to listen to hours of testimony well we have fortunately we've changed now when we have african-american senators we have senators of different ethnic backgrounds we have women senators it's not nearly as as white male as it was at the time of the founding we're moving in the right direction the senators are simply going to have to pay attention and listen i'm concerned about the. arguments going to 2 in the morning i certainly don't want my argument to be scheduled when people are half asleep and so i hope at least my argument will be when senators can pay attention as i'm sure they'll want to because they want to hear all sides of the issue of course in normal trials jory isn't of us we swayed by the media will the media have any impact on the senate as they decide on which way to vote while they they are ready the media ready has had considerable impact and voter constituency attitudes will have obviously a an impact this is not like a usual jury trial with

a jury sometimes a sequestered in is not allowed to hear outside sources hear the senators will obviously be part of the reporting in the real world so i think we'll see a lot of influences on. the senators include electoral influences and you're prepared for any smoking gun from the d.n.c. that they haven't as yet as shown as regards trumps. making deals as a quid pro quo for doing it on joe biden's son. well i'm not involved in a day to day of an entry aspects of the case i will argue constitutional issues which go back to the 18th century so i don't expect a lot of changes in the constitutional arguments that i'm making but obviously be very in tune to any new evidence or any new issues that come up has it bothered you the way people are attacking you in the united states establishment media and

across u.s. culture for defending donald trump accusing you of all kinds of things for being his defense attorney i'm used to that i've developed a thick skin i represented o.j. simpson i represented close my md bulow michael tyson michael milken. you can't be a criminal defense lawyer without getting abuse i think a back to the days of john adams who was horribly abused in the united states for defending the soldiers accused of what's called the boston massacre and he did an excellent job defense lawyers do that and so i expect to be abused and criticized and we've lost friends over this issue and that's too bad but it really tells you who your real friends are when people will stick with you even though they disagree with you and many of my friends have done that others have not and i should just say again back to the commemoration happening in jerusalem you don't accept the

criticism that you shouldn't be working for trump because he is behind what the defamation league is blaming huge rise in at least some of the crimes across the united states of course there across europe as well i don't believe that for one second i think that the promoters of anti-semitism are people like jeremy corbin on the left and neo nazis on on the right i don't think that donald trump who recognized jerusalem and recognized the golan heights and generally has had. a very good policies toward israel is responsible for the rise of anti-semitism he's certainly not responsible the rise of anti-semitism in hungary in poland and other parts of eastern europe so i think it's a false accusation in any event i don't pick who i represent or what arguments i make based on how i feel about a particular clients politics i supported bill clinton i would have supported hillary clinton had she been elected in impeached so i based my decisions on i'm

making constitutional arguments on the constitution not politics or friendships but of course the golan heights on international law is syrian and jerusalem under international law is disputed you know think it's precisely these pro israel policies of trouble that have created or of inspired more of the seventy's and certainly anti semitic conspiracy trapz absolutely not i think anti-semitism is caused by anti semites it's not caused by pro israel policies i also think that the issues of the go on and jerusalem are more complex and international law is very unclear on these issues and i'm myself very clear said gregory as if those actions it's not clear to me i've been teaching it for many many years and i've written 6 books on the subject so it's not clear to me there's no serious claim that jerusalem doesn't belong to israel it was illegally captured by jordan in the 1900

$48.00 war after united nations decided that that should be a internationalized city and and the jordanian sees that as they seized the west bank illegally and as the egyptians seize the guise of illegally so it's much more complex and i'm glad the president did what he did and just finally where exactly a month away from june in a songe of wiki leaks is extradition hearing to the united states you defended the songe you going to put words in trump said to stop the rest of the extradition of julian a songe absolutely not it's not would not be appropriate for me to use my current role on behalf of of anyone else or know the answers i will not do that out as a right thank you. thank you after the break all the world's richest different from us we go to the mountains of debt to speak to the c.e.o. of oxfam india who claims the richest one percent have more than twice the wealth of 7000000000 people and u.k.

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welcome back joining me now to go through some week's top stories is pretty counseling for me you can watch as a minister norman break and roland thanks for coming back on to new year and def again the french protests the revolution on the streets of paris what do you do that's the book i want to buy the royal family dates and of course the media this week is obsessed with america. america britain average of such but they're all from the prince harry powerful media is why he's stepping away while he is i think partly because of that's i think you had a tough time with his mother he said his mother went through i think he's not like the fact that millions were subject to hostile coverage farmer. kates has largely because he's independent minded i think and he isn't willing to take it so he wants to opt out it's a good it's quit a soap opera we have to admit there are things we can't say in the on television broadcast here from britain about this because of legal constraints what do you

think the whole story has shown us about media reaction and media analysis of the powerful while the media has an ideological family at all well to be honest with you they interfere and inject themselves into private matters when they shouldn't do we know all about prince george liking camels or horses or whatever you want which is nobody's business you should leave them alone but they don't look at what seriousness about the royal family to my book does which is look at the finances to look at the special legal arrangements to look at the he's not doing the harry is renouncing all the money from the taxpayer he's no you he's not announcing he's keeping h.r.h. you don't using it to reach but he's keeping it that means he will be able to call on public funds for his travel for his security which by the way will go through the roof now he's a problem that's putting more money on prince harry now they read it before i don't top of that of course he's ok he's paying money back to front more cottage but what about the money which is given to him by richard prince charles prince charles will

use a touch of como the cement evil arrangement to pay money to harry he will then claim as an expense because he doesn't sort of thing he will then have a lower tax liability so we're end up paying higher by the backdoor i'm sure. watching meanwhile that other great bit of the british establishment let's look at this from the day that is the b.b.c. stitched up borrowed johnson director general lord whole quits early so private accounts choose who takes over well is that the reason director general of the b.b.c. yes is that the reason he's gone or is a different reason is he just fed up as it been too much hassle what was the point of lord wall i mean allister milne he was fired over the spy satellite program and the b.b.c. best available to us. dyke fired for telling the truth coverage of dr kelly the death of dr kelly in the iraq war why did they want to get rid of him well i mean it doesn't do was get rid of him i think he wanted he wanted to stay on this i'm not sure that's want to stay on i think he may want to go because he just tired and

b. which is a rough time over equality of pay between men and women there's also the issue that if he does go as the headline suggests early before the chairman the new chairman is appointed then the new these just in chairman can appoint his successor whereas if he stays on to the new chairman comes in and burris you put a patsy in as chairman who wouldn't choose somebody unsuitable to b.b.c. because otherwise patsy's don't tend to be director generals of the b.b.c. it tend to be less of a patsy than you might imagine but it's very important to support the b.b.c. stands up and be independent with the government the majority of a tailor about's we can opposition in disarray and we go to a press which is by and large hostile to to honest reporting of politics so we need to b.b.c. and therefore it's very important to this post is filled by somebody with character and integrity. playing what they want to ask me about is it was he's going to the national gallery let's go do this meeting in berlin boris johnson tells vladimir

putin no thaw in u.k. or russia relations after souls bury at sac well of course you don't know whether that's true or not there whether it's spin i think the british would all go home and put out a statement repeated endlessly it was the british makes at least it up there whether it's true or not and what what this may be is an attempt to say to the electorate at large i'm tough on being tough on russia where is the truth on that he might be as i think it is that both sides are trying to normalize relations again after a very difficult period look i mean the u.k. is leaving the e.u. we'll lose all our friends over there without careful we've got a maniac in the white house or you know who's a long term self we can't afford to alienate everything will come to in the world and actually i'm not defending russia because russia done some bad things is going around i believe killing people in london is going to run invading places like crimea but. actually you know more alex is a bunch of joker for you what about what the u.s. has done in iran what about the fact of the chinese have locked up 1000000 we goes abroad you think chinese government denies that well this is a game from one store and we go on the we give the russia denies the crimea

allegation and murdering although you had said you might be writing your next book on this group well i believe don't have that as well as there's a whole lot of unanswered questions that need to be sorted out but i mean look i mean i can't let you know where but that you know there is footage there is video footage unphotographed of these camps in china where a 1000000 we could have been locked up it's alleged for it you know they did it and it's quite good look if you drove us here by the way your electorate is slightly less critical for prince andrew with his hand and that woman these are photographs exist and all that we get outside the country will tell you that's happening you know china is behaving in a reprehensible way so let's just let's be done and even about this let's pick up on morality across the world evenly rather than pick your individual countries ok but the boots good idea to outwardly say these sorts of really were not a tear russia's foreign affairs committee calls didn't cause a jet plane the u.k. was a nuclear target for hosting us missiles and could be hit within minutes well as with us true but i mean what overtones in the government should say in my view is look we have difficulty with russia we don't agree we have to leave done but we did have

a normal relationship with the major crimes in the world so we'll we'll work on that basis but we're not reserve we're not pulling back from what we've said that ok well i will boris johnson was also hosting here one why do the alleged death squad link you gave you backed coup leader john bolton is woman national security adviser tweeted this madeira tells the washington post she wants to go she is united states the only negotiations we should have with the douro are what he wants for lunch on the plane that will take him to permanent exile in cuba or russia viva venezuela this is rather a this is rather aren't they going to permanent exile in cuba or russia yet i mean it's just typical american arrogance to be honest boris johnson was with one way though apparently some room is saying that he may be negotiating the gold reserves of the. as a whale of the venezuelan government once back one way duo who by all accounts doesn't have one supporter meant as whether they were little madeira has done a great deal to record the country i mean the place is a mess people are starving to try to leave the country so i can't defend him as

a leader but what i would say is not the business of other countries but it is the u.k. of the us versus anxious that may wreck the country out of exactly should put sanctions on a 2nd we shouldn't try to wreck the country you know it's for the venezuelans to sort out not for us to get involved ok but why didn't brazil in the meeting when great don't you think a lot of it is about what trump and the united states is leveraging britain for get a american trade deal post there was a suggestion in the german papers that unless the european countries germany france and britain and probably russia and china as well got tougher on iran then the car industry in germany would see 25 percent surcharge on it simply imports into america it's export for america you know that's what trump dollars he plays he's unconnected things together and you know what it is blackmail britain has to do what the united states tells them to or would face the end of its order well who would be on the logical thing to do of course is to have close relations with the like minded countries in the european union but sadly we're going the opposite

direction no one big thank you well john bolton will presumably been watching closely as u.s. president donald trump made a speech at the world economic forum in davos yesterday amidst u.s. threats to nations around the world trump bragged about his economic record without mentioning massive inequality both in the u.s. and all around the world joining me now from davos is c.e.o. of oxfam india and thank you so much for coming on so tell me about time to care the reports the opening line says that economic inequality is out of control it is absolutely out of control as in you just look at the data the data tells us that the bananas have more wealth than 4600000000 people in this. worries and this is important that we all saw it now juxtapose this figure with 50 percent of the global population living with 5.5 dollars a day or less and that's pretty much living in poverty conditions so so that's the

stark inequality we're looking at but let me also say that this is not happening by chance it's clearly a rigged system an economic system which is tilted in favor of that age which makes the rich richer and the poor continue to live in poverty and if you look at the protests around the world that people are not willing to accept these levels of inequality and we need to end the 1000000000 and it's quite noisy there in davos behind you in the conference in switzerland what's it like when you tell delegates there at davos this week about what you just said i mean surely a natural outcome of society is the name to be meritocratic absolutely as the people gathered here are people who benefit from this big nomic system and they must really look at the larger world outside but we wait quickly tell you about a woman from india she wakes up every morning i name is which today we had 3 am

walks with 3 kilometers to get water for the family then goes and gets 4 door send children to school does cooking cleaning washing and then goes to a construction site where she is underpaid she works for 1718 hours a day and she still does not get the minimum wage so this is also the kerry call me that we are highlighting in our report the billionaires here should at least stop doing harm stop tilting policies in their favor on the other hand states need to take decisive action ensure everybody pays the fair tax we have investments in public services and people get a living wage yes we're actually speaking to the indian high commissioner to london about poverty but you're a poor. it is quite in just sectional despite appearing to be a class war you claim the $22.00 men have more wealth than all the women of africa you mentioned public services boris johnson sees private investment as

a key to african investment despite of course of the alleged scandals regarding mining and workers' rights how do you see privatization and the private sectors being key in solving the inequality problem you've identified thank you for bringing in the gender dimension let me just you know one data. can economy which women and girls do which is looking after children held early this taking care of the households is $10.00 trillion dollars and willing and this is 3 times the global take industry so that's the level of exploitation of women and girls that we're looking at and it's fairly clear that the private sector has an important role in the future of the group in terms of ensuring that they're not doing any harm but i think it's also very critical to ensure that the public services are done by the state so whether it's education health care we should not be

substituting these fundamental services basic needs and basic rights by the private sector so as to why things have got so much worse and why they're getting worse i mean is it a function of the culture of countries the politics of countries and if you talk to the one percent which has twice the wealth of 7000000000 people according to your your report they're the ones of course in power as regards politics and media and culture if you're talking about the politics across cultures i would say yes it does matter but the politics of greed the politics of billionaires is pretty much cutting across. and cultural boundaries and that's what we're looking at it's the economic system that we need to fundamentally change we do not need an economic system which is favoring the rich and then we i think what's also critical particularly was this to recognize that economic inequality the obscene economic

inequality we see is one face of the same quine which is also resulting in the climate emergencies that we see around us you see debates about social services in advance so-called advanced nations often talk about the carrot and stick useful to have the needy poor is a warning to the poor that they must work harder do you think that is the level of debate where things have gone badly wrong i would completely disagree that your talking of when we are talking of access to food access to water access to sanitation access to education we would really then see that as if it's given out as a dollar it's certainly not at all it's a fundamental right and it's not something that a new demand is being made it's been part of. a crow bill compaq's from 948

starting from universal declaration of human rights and i think any decent society would ensure these basic minimums to every citizen of their own countries and of the planet earth by 2025 which is not way far they would be around $2400000000.00 people living without access to water and that's because of the climate emergency that we're looking at well how well the donald trump speech go down at the davos summit sorry sorry i was not idealist heard the speech so i'll not be able to come here i mean thank you. that's it for the show will be back on saturday with india's i commissioner to britain as india's brics partner china. it's on the brits the new year until then give it a try social media don't forget to subscribe to our you tube channel.

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